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Understanding children's literature : key essays from the International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature / edited by Peter Hunt

Material type: TextTextPublication details: Abingdon : Routldge, c2005 Edition: 2nd edDescription: 225 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN: 9780415375474Subject(s): Children's literature | Children--Books and reading | LiteratureDDC classification: 809.89282 UND
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Contents
Note on the second edition
Contributors
1 Introduction: the expanding world of Children's literature studies
2 Theorising and theories: how does children's literature exist?
3 Critical tradition and ideological positioning
4 Space, history and culture: the setting of children's literature
5 Analysing texts: linguistics and stylistics
6 Readers, texts, contexts: reader-response criticism
7 Reading the unconsious: psychoanalytical criticism
8 Feminism revisited
9 Decoding the images: how picture books work
10 Bibliography: the resources of children's literature
11 Understanding reading and literacy
12 Intertextuality and the child reader
13 Healing texts: bibliotherapy and psychology
14 What the authors tell us
Glossary
General bibliography
Index

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